Sensor network for water quality assesment

Author

Damian, Catalin ; Fosalau, Cristian ; Dias Pereira, J. Miguel ; Postolache, Octavian ; Girao, Pedro

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Iasi Romania, Iasi, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

849

Lastpage

852

Abstract

Water quality assessment continues to be an important challenge, different wired and wireless sensor networks based on water quality (WQ) transducers being reported in the literature. Taking into account the measurement of multiple WQ parameters in different surface water locations, the paper presents a hybrid distributed measurement architecture that combines a wired network supporting SDI-12 protocol and a long range wireless communication based on XSTREAM RF modems. The system is used to monitor the ocean influence in the Sado estuary as well as the anthropogenic factors influence.

Keywords

protocols; transducers; water quality; wireless sensor networks; SDI-12 protocol; Sado estuary; WQ parameters; WQ transducers; XSTREAM RF modem; hybrid distributed measurement architecture; ocean influence; water quality assesment; water quality transducers; wired network; wireless communication; wireless sensor networks; Global Positioning System; Instruments; Pollution measurement; Sea measurements; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; SDI-12 protocol; water quality parameters monitoring; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2012 International Conference and Exposition on

Conference_Location

Iasi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1173-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPE.2012.6463827

Filename

6463827